Conversation Piece

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 April’s Tooth of Gold 2:29
• 2 The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends the Garden Fête on Thatchwick Green) 2:17
• 3 When I’m Five 3:17
• 4 Mother Grey 3:00
• 5 In the Heat of the Morning 2:59
• 6 Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe 3:19
• 7 Love All Around 2:49
• 8 London Bye, Ta‐Ta 3:30
• 9 Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 1) 2:31
• 10 Angel Angel Grubby Face (version 2) 2:37
• 11 Animal Farm 2:22
• 12 Space Oddity (solo demo fragment) 2:39
• 13 Space Oddity (version 1) 4:02
• 14 Space Oddity (version 2) 5:01
• 15 Space Oddity (version 3) 5:09
• 16 Lover to the Dawn 3:51
• 17 Ching‐A‐Ling 2:58
• 18 An Occasional Dream 2:50
• 19 Let Me Sleep Beside You 2:54
• 20 Life Is a Circus 4:50
• 21 Conversation Piece 3:49
• 22 Jerusalem 4:20
• 23 Hole in the Ground 3:29

Disc 2

• 1 Space Oddity 5:28
• 2 Janine 3:53
• 3 An Occasional Dream 3:18
• 4 Conversation Piece 3:31
• 5 Ching‐A‐Ling 3:35
• 6 I’m Not Quite (aka Letter to Hermione) 4:04
• 7 Lover to the Dawn 5:01
• 8 Love Song 4:08
• 9 When I’m Five 3:13
• 10 Life Is a Circus 5:33

Disc 3

• 1 In the Heat of the Morning (Decca mono version) 2:52
• 2 London Bye, Ta‐Ta (Decca alternative version) 2:36
• 3 In the Heat of the Morning (BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968) 3:01
• 4 London Bye, Ta‐Ta (BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968) 2:37
• 5 Karma Man (BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968) 3:07
• 6 When I’m Five (BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968) 3:14
• 7 Silly Boy Blue (BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968) 4:32
• 8 Ching‐A‐Ling (BBC Top Gear radio session with the Tony Visconti Orchestra, recorded 13th May, 1968) 2:51
• 9 Space Oddity (Morgan Studios version – alternative take) 4:22
• 10 Space Oddity (U.K. single edit) 4:42
• 11 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B‐side – mono mix) 4:54
• 12 Janine (mono mix) 3:22
• 13 Conversation Piece 3:07
• 14 Let Me Sleep Beside You (BBC Dave Lee Travis Show radio session, recorded 20th October, 1969) 3:20
• 15 Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (BBC Dave Lee Travis Show radio session, recorded 20th October, 1969) 4:04
• 16 Janine (BBC Dave Lee Travis Show radio session, recorded 20th October, 1969) 3:03

Disc 4

• 1 Space Oddity 5:16
• 2 Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don’t Sit Down) 6:53
• 3 Letter to Hermione 2:36
• 4 Cygnet Committee 9:34
• 5 Janine 3:23
• 6 An Occasional Dream 3:02
• 7 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 4:51
• 8 God Knows I’m Good 3:21
• 9 Memory of a Free Festival 7:13
• 10 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B‐side stereo mix) 4:59
• 11 Letter to Hermione (early mix) 2:33
• 12 Janine (early mix) 3:24
• 13 An Occasional Dream (early mix) 2:56
• 14 Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola (full length version) 5:06

Disc 5

• 1 Space Oddity 5:20
• 2 Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed 6:19
• 3 Letter to Hermione 2:33
• 4 Cygnet Committee 9:37
• 5 Janine 3:21
• 6 An Occasional Dream 2:57
• 7 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 4:50
• 8 Conversation Piece 3:11
• 9 God Knows I’m Good 3:17
• 10 Memory of a Free Festival 7:20
• 11 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single version) 4:54
• 12 Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola 5:19

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